To me, this seems like more likely to make LD chaotic than to give it the kind of variety that most people complain about - for the most part, you're just taking mechanics from other areas of the game and throwing them into lockdown. I can say that having more timer-based effects (sprites) could make the gameplay a *little* more dynamic, but otherwise this is mostly just extra noise.

As someone who played a lot of LD 3 years ago, I can say that I remember the biggest problem being overpowered game-slowing mechanics (polaris, mist bombs), and the extra health, and team revs, make this look like more of that.

I will also say that the substantive aspect of LD (sword/gunplay, good cancelling mechanics) is pretty heavily impeded by a lack of servers and good network programming, so if we're thinking about new modes of PvP, I'd rather look more into slower paced team strategy - we already have plenty of spam-action in LD.

When I said "slower and more strategic", I meant for different, non-LD gamemodes. I don't know if your proposals would make LD more "strategic", but they would certainly make it slower.

Though I agree that this would make it less likely for players to die without ever damaging their opponent, I don't think this would necessarily make UV'd trinket players less powerful. To the contrary, I think this mode would make it vastly harder to find ways to play skillfully - that is what I mean by "chaotic": more players are alive at once, so spamming big-AoE weapons naturally becomes most effective.

Rather than giving players opportunities to outplay their gear level, as LD currently does, this leaves players in brute-force matchups of gear. The high-expense UVs that are sought after (or were sought after at the time I played lockdown - armor with shock resistance and extra defenses, swords and guns with ASI) were considered to be at their most beneficial when everyone was spamming polaris in GvG - and I imagine that giving everyone more health would make territorial polaris-mist bomb tactics even more viable than they are currently - why would you spend your time killing someone when they respawn in half the time it took to kill them? Wouldn't you rather territorially deny them, permanently?

I agree that giving all players higher bonuses would cancel out certain UV-advantages, and giving more health would cancel out trinket advantages to an extent, but if you're looking to nerf the mid-level "entry requirements" for LD, t2 was imo a much better game than what you're describing here, and it eventually died because players wanted the advantages that gear allowed them*. I imagine this mode being utterly ignored by lockdown regulars, and having difficulty gaining traction from the LD-disinterested and new players.

*t2 did have it's own low-bar of entry, which was likely raised by the alchemy-orb economic update, in part because of gear being more annoying to heat, and in part because of the removal of mist, which makes trinket slots 3x more expensive.